Untamed Lasith Malinga the star of the show

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Simon Wilde, The Sunday Times’s Cricket Correspondent, reckons Lasith Malinga is the best sight in cricket for years

For slightly more than two days, watching cricket at Galle’s repaired stadium was a somnabulant business. The slow accumulation of runs, the very occasional wicket, the inevitable asphyxiation of English hope.

Then came the electrical storm. It was not so much triggered by Chaminda Vaas, well though he bowled for his four wickets in his opening spell from the pavilion end. It was what Lasith Malinga was doing running in against a backdrop of the mighty fort wall. Had he turned round and bowled at the wall he might have knocked it down. He did as much as anyone to